Word: koranic
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...wasn't just the museum, either. Vandals also invaded three libraries, setting fire to thousands upon thousands of records, manuscripts and rare books--including irreplaceable copies of the Koran. Says Renata Holod, a professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania: "The burning of the National Library and the National Archives is comparable to a collection of the size and importance of the Library of Congress being gutted and destroyed. It's such a tragedy, I could cry." Nor was the devastation limited to Baghdad. The University of Mosul's important rare book and manuscript collection also was sacked...
DIED. JOHN LATSIS, 92, last of the Greek shipping magnates from the postwar era, who, with a relatively low profile, spent much of his $5.4 billion on charitable works that included financing a Greek translation of the Koran and sending a 20,000-ton cruise ship to temporarily house 900 Greek earthquake victims; in Athens. Born in a fishing village, the onetime deckhand bought his first freighter in 1938, later expanding into an empire of ships, banks, oil refineries and construction companies...
...recalls a telling moment a few months after Sept. 11, when he was among the guests at a "sort of off-night dinner" at the Vice President's residence. Lewis was there too, and Cheney, when he arrived, promptly asked the professor to conduct a seminar on Islam, the Koran and Muslim attitudes toward Americans. Cheney expressed his views most forcefully in a major speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville in August 2002. "Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region," he said, including "the chance to promote the values...
...turbulent political history of India between 1915 and 1979. Rushdie had originally written a five-hour screenplay for a bbc mini-series. But his own personal story intruded. In 1989, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him after declaring his book The Satanic Verses disrespectful to the Koran. The author was forced into hiding for nine years, and the mini-series was doomed. The Indian government deemed it too risky to be filmed in Bombay; Sri Lanka gave permission, then changed its mind. The project lay dormant until Rushdie was approached by the RSC. They'd seen director...
...have come here to support the students for my children's future." Since early November, students throughout Iran have taken part in a series of rolling demonstrations to protest the death sentence imposed on Hashem Aghajari, a reformist professor who criticized the clergy's monopoly on interpreting the Koran in a speech given June 19. The Aghajari verdict has stirred the long-dormant student movement, provided focus for popular discontent and injected new life into the standoff between President Mohammed Khatami's reformist parliamentary majority and the hard-line clerics who control the Expediency and Guardian Councils, which form...